Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, during the War, 2.75% alcoholic content was set as the limit on legal beverages. The revenue agents still collected the tax and undertook to punish those who disregarded the limit. A little later, the legal limit was reduced to .5%. The Bureau of Internal Revenue still undertook the business of enforcement. There was no longer any revenue to be derived from a tax on alcoholic beverages, but the Bureau handled the taxes and regulations on alcohol for industrial uses. A special unit was then set up by the Bureau to undertake the increased labor of enforcing the .5% restriction...
Federal Judge Morris A. Soper interpreted this to mean that the home juicemaker was exempt from the arbitrary definition that ½% alcoholic content makes a beverage "intoxicating." For beverages on sale, he held that the ½% criterion was legal and unassailable, but within the walls of a man's home what he made exclusively for his own use was not to be so strictly governed...
...Independent of the verdict, the opinion of Judge Soper to the effect that fruit juices and cider made in the home for use there must be intoxicating in fact and are not limited to ½% alcoholic content, fixed by other sections of the act to regulate other beverages, is of the utmost importance...
Third was L'Homme ct scs Fantòmes by H. R. Lenormand. Like his Fail- ures, which the Theatre Guild produced last year, the play was episodic. In content, it dealt with a modern Don Juan...
...that it could not afford to do without science, and subsequently led us into what has turned out to be a great scientific era, so now the world is perceiving that it cannot do without art, and its life on earth is not complete and happy without the spiritual content that art alone can bring. It will search for a higher art just as it has reached for a higher science...